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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

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In 2010, we opened our first AWS Region in Singapore and since then have opened additional regions: Japan, Australia, China, Korea, and India. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea. Amazon DynamoDB â?? APAC Summer Tour.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

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This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. As we announced earlier this month a Region with multiple Availability Zones will come online in Singapore in the first half of 2010, with other regions in Asia to follow later in 2010.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. The throughput of this pipeline is more important than the latency of the individual operations. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

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By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. All Things Distributed.

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